Ladder is being reset as we speak

Posted By: March 23, 2010

Noted by fans, but also now a comment by Bashiok:

As an FYI people are being kicked out of games, we’re going to verify all game servers are down, then take down everything. We’ll push the patch, you’ll be able to update and patch but character/game creation will be unavailable until the reset is complete. We’re still estimating it all to be finished by 3:00 PM PDT, but updates will be posted in the Battle.net Status forum on timing.

That would be about 22:00 UK time, or 23:00 in central Europe (or 10pm, if you’re not used to the 24 hour clock).

With the ladder reset Patch 1.13 will also be released. Check after the break for the Patch Notes.

(Thanks Bandreus)

————————————————————————–Diablo II Version History ————————————————————————–

– Adventurers of Sanctuary are hereby warned once again, that a new challenge awaits you. Within Diablo’s Bosses, spanning across the world from the ancient Monastery Catacombs to the Throne of Destruction, is where you’ll find what you seek…

Major Bugs

– Fixed an item dupe bug. – Video improvements for Intel Mac machines with OS 10.5 or greater. – Fixed an issue where some players could kill other players while in town (“TPPK”). – Fixed an issue where some players could disconnect other players when they had too many active states. – Fixed two issues where players could stack auras in an unintended way.

Minor Bugs

– Uber Mephisto now checks for both Uber Baal and Uber Diablo to be killed before spawning summoned minions (Before he would only check for Uber Baal). – The game will no longer stop and then restart the game music after the window loses and then regains focus. – Fixed an issue where the game window would minimize when running in windowed mode when it lost focus. – Fixed an issue where the game window wouldn’t center properly when it was created. – Fangskin should now properly drop loot in Hell difficulty. – Fixed an issue where auras were not re-applied to your mercenary after it was resurrected. – Fixed an issue where if you had two items which provided auras to a mercenary and you unequipped one, the aura from the remaining item never became active. – Fixed an issue where the Paladin class runeword ‘Principle‘ wasn’t having all of its stats applied properly. – Fixed an issue where the Paladin’s Charge ability would become locked out if Holy Shield faded while charging. – Fixed an issue where the Barbarian‘s Leap ability could become locked out if they were hit when they started to leap.

Specific changes/improvements

– Respecialization is now possible! Completing the ‘Den of Evil‘ quest will now additionally reward 1 free respec which can be saved. Players who have already completed this quest should receive 1 free respec in Hell difficulty. – Increased the drop rate of high runes. – Support for blit scaling in windowed mode. The game can now be maximized to the largest 4:3 resolution supported (hooray widescreen users). – Some rare drop items now have an orange color. i.e. Runes and items required for Uber Tristam. – Modified the gold bank limit to be a flat cap not bound by level. – Removed the requirements to create a hardcore character. – Greatly reduced the explosion damage dealt by Fire Enchanted monsters. – Uber Mephisto and Uber Baal’s summoned minions no longer give experience. – Removed Oblivion Knight‘s Iron Maiden curse. – Hellfire Torch Firestorm proc rate has been reduced to 5%. – Users can now toggle the display of text over the Health and Mana globes by clicking on the bottom area of each orb. – When creating a single player game, each difficulty button is now bound to a unique key: Normal ‘R’, Nightmare ‘N’, and Hell ‘H’. – The ‘Enter Chat’ Button in the battle.net waiting room is now bound to the ‘Enter’ key. – Added the windows system buttons to the game window (MIN, MAX, CLOSE). – Added new command line parameter ‘-nofixaspect’ which allows users to not fix the aspect ratio to 4:3 when maximizing in windowed mode. This lets the game ‘stretch’ to fill your monitor. – Added support for ‘-sndbkg’ command line switch. This enables sound in background. – Added the following aliases for pre-existing command line options, ‘-nosound’, ‘-window’, and ‘-windowed’.